What embroidery stitch for lettering?

[Biscuits & Gravy]

I'm teaching myself embroidery right now. I'm working on a little shirt for DS and I want to stitch a couple of words. What is a good stitch to use for lettering?

[orangefoot]

My vintage machine's book recommends a satin stitch which is a zig zag stitch with length at 0 and width at 3. Use an embroidery hoop to keep the fabric stretched.

Googling should give you some more modern tips.

[NiteNicole]

For words, not a monogram, I would just use a simple split stitch. I guess it depends on what you want it to look like. A satin stitch for a series of words would take forever.

What I'm talking about would look like the word FRIDAY at the top on this pic:

http://darlingmakedo.files.wordpress...daintydays.jpg

These letters are really neat, and it's a combo of stitches:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3014/...03f17d2b77.jpg

You don't have to do it any way at all, you can just pick what you like or print something out in a font you like and just make it up, you can mix stitches, you can do anything.

[Magelet]

a split stitch is definitely my go to. (Actually, its my go to for everything). A backstitch or stem stitch also works well, though personally I find a split stitch easier to do lettering with.

[sapphire_chan]

http://embloggery.blogspot.com/

[NiteNicole]

So very cool.